Exeter Citizens Advice Bureau is looking for volunteers and will be holding a recruitment fair at their office on Wednesday 3 December.
They will be recruiting for a range of roles including:
• Advisor – Give generalist advice to clients. • Gateway assessor – Identify issues, next steps and handle emergencies • Reception and information guide – meet people as they arrive and help them access self help resources.
You will receive training for all roles. The advisor and gateway assessor roles come with a specific and thorough training course which may take between 1-2...
Local charity, Exeter Citizens Advice Bureau, has identified a massive 56% increase in private sector tenant repossession cases. This is in comparison with the same period last year and shows that pressure on household budgets is biting harder than ever.
Across all housing sectors, where a CAB adviser has assisted clients facing repossession, clients have avoided repossession in 85% of cases.
Exeter City Council has provided financial support for this essential service.
Steve Barriball, Exeter Citizens Advice Bureau Chief Executive, said: “We have at least one...
Local charity Exeter Citizens Advice Bureau has today published its latest advice trend statistics which show that in the first half of the financial year it helped 2,895 people directly with advice and information.
On average, clients with money problems have debts totaling £12,300.98, down by just over a £1,000 on the same period the previous year. However, with Christmas fast approaching, the charity expects to see a further increase in the New Year.
The amount of advice that the charity has been able to provide has increased in the following areas compared to the same...
Exeter Citizens Advice Bureau held a celebration to mark the opening of its new city centre offices.
Guest-of-honour, MP Ben Bradshaw officially opened the charity’s new premises which are now based in Dix’s Field.
And there was a special honour bestowed on one of Exeter CAB’s most dedicated volunteers.
Anna Warne, who has worked as a volunteer and later as a member of the trustee board for more than 32 years, was made the organisation’s first ‘life friend’. The office’s new meeting and training room was also named in her honour.
Local charity, Exeter Citizens Advice Bureau, has said the route to more competition in the payday loans market is for banks to offer responsible alternatives.
Provisional findings from the Competition and Markets Authority has found payday loan customers could be paying £5 to £10 more per loan due to lack of competition.
Steve Barriball, Exeter Citizens Advice Bureau Chief Executive, said: “People are paying over the odds for payday loans that often sentence customers to years-worth of expensive debt. Borrowers are left with deep financial problems after what was supposed...
A survey carried out by local charity, Exeter Citizens Advice Bureau, shows that many people in Exeter will struggle to deal with universal credit without support.
For most claimants, Universal Credit will eventually replace:
• Income Support • Income-based Jobseeker's Allowance • Income-related Employment and Support Allowance • Child Tax Credit • Working Tax Credit • Housing Benefit • Budgeting loans - an advance payment of UC will replace these.
Figures from the Devon Strategic Partnership Welfare Reform Advisory Group in August 2013 suggest that 157,000 people...
Almost £8,000 was donated to people in need in Devon over the last year thanks to the generosity of people who gave up their winter fuel payments. Devon Citizens Advice Bureau partnered with the Devon Community Foundation (DCF) to operate the Surviving Winter campaign over the winter months of 2013-2014. The campaign saw people who did not require their winter fuel payment donating it via the Devon Community Foundation. Citizens Advice Bureaux across the county then helped allocate the money to people who were most in need. A total of 78 households benefited from the scheme. The Winter...
Exeter Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) will be taking over a ground floor office complex in the Civic Centre – giving it a more prominent location in the city centre.
The bureau, which provides free advice to the people of Exeter, has signed a lease on the building with Exeter City Council.
Dennis Mardon, chair of Exeter CAB, said: ‘We are delighted to be moving into new premises. We will be able to offer a more modern environment for our clients, staff and volunteers.
‘In many ways we will be sorry to be leaving our current offices in Wat Tyler House as they have...
ADVICE EXETER is a newly formed group of local charities offering free advice and information to local people.
Exeter CAB, Age UK Exeter, Young Devon, Shelter, Community Housing Aid and Homemaker Southwest have teamed up to improve the services they offer to people in Exeter. The partnership, which is funded jointly by Big Lottery Fund and the Cabinet Office, held a successful launch event at Exeter Community Centre in March.
The work of Advice Exeter will include a new online access channel and self-help resource for users, an expanded presence across the city in libraries...
Exeter Citizen’s Advice Bureau has said that the Government must do more to work for “those who are making do and can’t save” and warns that many of the government’s austerity cuts “have yet to bite”.
The comments from Exeter CAB come after the Chancellor, George Osborne, yesterday revealed his 5th budget to MPs in parliament.
The budget, described by Mr Osborne as one for “makers, doers and savers”, included a range of new measures including raising the personal income allowance, introducing new pensions rules and a ‘New Isa’ with a tax free saving limit of £15,000 per...
